Dayton Metro Library is pleased to announce that one of its young reader patrons has been selected by the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA) to receive a 2023 READ On! Ohio Award for Children & Teens.
Stormy Carson, a student at the Imagine Woodbury Academy, will receive the award in the SW region, primary (K-2) categories. She was nominated by Dani Gustavich, Trotwood Branch’s Children’s Librarian at the time of the submission. Stormy will be recognized at the 2023 OELMA Conference and Awards Ceremony on Friday, October 6, in Dublin, Ohio.
Gustavich nominated Stormy because she loves to read and interact with others. Her “ray of sunshine” aura opens her up to being willing to discuss many topics, including diversity and inclusion. “She is a brilliant reader,” Gustavich said, “who eagerly attends Library programs and hopes to present her own storytime this summer.”
The OELMA award celebrates enthusiastic readers who are nominated by school and public librarians in four grade and four region categories. This is the eighth year, according to an OELMA press release, that Ohio has been awarded. In fact, this is the second year in a row that one of Gustavich’s nominations have received an award.
Last year, she nominated Brayden Moman, in the same age category, and was ecstatic when he won. Gustavich is currently serving as the Children’s Librarian at DML’s E.C. Doren Branch and is “determined to find a winner for 2024” from that Branch’s community.
For more information about the READ On! Ohio Award for Children & Teens, visit OELMA at www.OELMA.org.
